I think the differentiation going forward is going to be if you're a person that understands things or if you're a person that delegates your understanding. I don't think there's going to be a lot of economic or social value to prompting an AI to do things you don't understand. First, anyone can do it, so why should someone give you money or credibility for that? Second, as fewer and fewer people bother to learn hard things, the scarcity of that knowledge will increase its value.

I guess even if I end up being wrong about that, I'd rather enrich my life and grow as a person by continuing to learn and do hard things rather than become an annoying cheerleader dependent on unreliable tools.

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piloto_ciego 2 hours ago | parent [-]

lol, there aren’t going to be people giving money to other people in the long run.

“Money is the sign of a poor civilization” or something similar that a Culture GCU would say.

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overgard 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Uh, unless you're living with your well-off parents in perpetuity or you already have FU money... good luck with that. I'm pretty sure my landlord isn't going to accept "money doesn't matter anymore because of AI!"

Also do you really think billionaires are frothing at the mouth for this because it's going to make money less important?

	▲	piloto_ciego 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think the billionaire folks are pathological or opportunists, nothing really more. As for your landlord, I doubt that will be a problem either. You cannot make 40% - 80% of the country structurally unemployable with AI and eventually robots and keep this same economic system. It will be weird, it’s not going to be hugely fun, but I’m betting that we either get massive deflation, huge changes in land use policy, revolution, or a combination of them all. Personally I’m building a shack in the woods and building my own business. We will see how it turns out, but I doubt money as we know it survives this. Edit to be clear: I think it’s going to work out and probably be pretty cool after we deal with obvious problems that are coming up.